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Lutheran Church official calls for white nationalists to be excommunicated https://www.rawstory.com/white-nationalist-lutheran-church/

Lutheran Church official calls for white nationalists to be excommunicated

A top Lutheran church official is calling for the excommunication of unrepentant white nationalists, attacking their beliefs as "evil."“This is evil. We condemn it in the name of Christ,” Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, wrote in a open letter last week in the Repor...

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Show threadA Guy Named Brian (he/him)Feb 27, 2023
@DemocracyMattersALot I’m actually surprised that the call came from this particular branch of the Lutheran church. Pleased, but surprised. Hopefully they won’t be the last.
Show threadBuffalo RudeFeb 27, 2023
@DemocracyMattersALot @NoahH Impressive. Good luck bringing the American Catholic Church along. I woulda thought with a liberation theologian and South American Jesuit as the Bishop of fucking Rome, there’d be a little more noise — other than some badass nuns — from the American religious orders by now. Sigh.
Show threadcaseyjonesedFeb 27, 2023
@DemocracyMattersALot any group that professes to believe in a power greater than themselves should denounce Trump.
#Trump=Hatred
Show threadMary Alicia ZiffFeb 27, 2023
@DemocracyMattersALot and no Catholic Bishop chimes in?
They weren't above politicizing a moment when it was women losing their God given right of body autonomy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/05/24/pelosi-joins-biden-kerry-giuliani-and-other-catholics-threatened-with-no-communion-because-of-abortion-support/
Pelosi Joins Biden, Kerry, Giuliani And Other Catholics Threatened With No Communion Because Of Abortion Support

Catholic officials have denied Joe Biden communion at least twice during his political career, but he did receive communion last year in Rome.

Forbes